Culture as the social outcome of tensions between the few and the
many obviously has a firm political component. This component has
various meanings; one of them is the ability to generate change. This
changing or generating component can be misused as a repressing tool
in the hands of power, whether this power is applied to the benefits
or the destruction of society. Not any human alien order is able to
protect or to govern individual independence; this is in strong
contrast with the obligations and promises contemporary governments
and industries are demanding from ‘their’ citizens and employees.

Being part of an organization, whether a government or any other
alien body, is conflicting with one’s need to “be” free, not to
“feel” free, but to “be” free.

The illusion of ‘being’ given by the sensation of feeling is
paramount and leading to conflicting tensions both in the individual
and in society

Totalitarian mass-culture establishes a terror state.

This ‘feeling’ of not being, but acting according to the outcome of
the influences of sensory impulses is in the hands of the malevolent
an easy way to full fill their purposes.

When the naïve and easily pleased masses are manipulated with sense
satisfying impulses directed towards the instantaneously consummation
of their desires, they turn into willing anthropomorphic machines,
who can easily be controlled. This is exemplified by the enormous
success of various consumption oriented practises and their
intentional propagation of a hedonistic lifestyle as everyone can see
on TV, Film and other media.

It is very difficult not to consume. Emphasize is directed towards
the notion that to consume is ‘good’, ‘good’ for the market, ‘good’
for the economics. But fundamentally it is neither good nor bad. It
is mere an attempt to postpone everyone’s nearing end and as such
both angst and lust driven.

To be fully aware of the responsibilities one can take for one’s own
life and independence is the first step towards a freer and less
manipulative society, which as a matter of fact is getting
increasingly more difficult when the control and angst/lust driven
order is gaining more and more control of our individual lives. There
is a tendency towards de-individuating society in favour of
socializing the individual.

This results in societies where its members are artificially held in
a state of angst; fed by their desires which are brutally perverted
by pornographic conceptions which at their turn are sold as
entertainment by the culture / creative and knowledge industries.

Both the ancient left and right wings are neglecting lessons learned

Lessons learned from the outcome of the global politico-economical
status quo after WW II is not being taken seriously enough by the
world population simply because of a lack of self-consciousness. The
need to be educated is falsely directed towards knowledge in stead of
knowing. By objectification of human thoughts mankind loses its
ground in a more fundamental way than the threads of so called
fundamentalists.

There is a very diffuse intellectual gap between Europe (continental)
and the American British alliances which existed before WW II and
which is still unresolved.

Ironically the winner of WW II is global fascism, as the bigger
brother of its more regional guise; National Socialism. America’s
role in contemporary society can be characterized by a compulsive
attitude towards its own identity, and in that process neglecting the
fact that this behaviour is not everyone’s concern and not at all to
the benefit of the whole. By victimizing the rest of the world it
merely shows that it is thinking acting and operating driven by an
enormous frustration.

Education and politico-economical programs are build on false
premises which do not benefit society as a whole, but on the contrary
is building a society where one of the most important tasks for its
citizens is not to end their lives homeless, unemployed, addicted to
whatever addictions are at hand, doing all this with the very naïve
assumption that free market will filter the good from the bad.

Globalization in economics promises Heaven and maintains Hell

The wish of the few for a global economical society results in
constructing political ways to force the many in an angst-lust driven
society where economical machines easily can reach their goals.
Culture, ethics, aesthetics, art, compassion are used as
tranquilizers to keep the few reluctant opponents at ease. The dream
factory produces 24 hours a day images, sounds, ideologies,
documents, papers, and novels about how to be happy in a hellish world.

Super economics is a substitute of super ego

As a logical consequence of the mechanism of industrialization of
knowledge, industries are serving the status quo, and are deforming
any trend towards a radical departure from the purposefulness and
makebility of society to a marketing tool serving their own
intentions namely the complete dehumanization and zombification of
humankind.

In a world dominated by super economics, superego’s come to the
foreground to assist the achievement of its program. So we have our
Bush’s, Blair’s, Saddam’s and Bin Laden’s as a consequence of the
political direction the world as a whole is taking.

Hedonism is instrumental of fascism.

The natural state of fascism is a state in which all desires are
fullfilable, instead of rejecting the dependencies of desires as a
burden and a suffering, by maintaining a more ethical attitude
towards its seductions, fascism propagates and fully embraces the
orgies, the bacchanal, the bloodshed, the genocide, the total
destruction of beauty and is suffocating aesthetics by crossing
deliberately the line between the domain of the individual and the
domain of society.

Class struggle ‘follows’ class consciousness

When a minority of workers ‘inside’ the so called creative/ culture
knowledge industries do have a more critical attitude towards the
intentions of their employers, they do not want to be employed
anymore, instead people are starting to work for themselves and
trying to maintain a more indepent life/work environment, which, as
an ironical result, leads to a political involvement in this
attitude, creating an artificial role function, which is gradually
incorporated into the politico-economical programs of the very same
ursurpating financial and state machines, adding another refinement
in the producer-supplier-consumer chain. The ‘Creative Class’ of
Richard Florida, for example, is heavily read and used as a blue-
print in developing city economics, at least in the lower
governmental circles in The Netherlands.

A possible way out will be to break the chain, to be able to produce
without the economics involved, a nearly unimaginable, utopian
alternative, to produce works of aesthetical value which are
fundamental purposeless, not serving any need whatsoever. Developing
a new aesthetical and ethical consciousness in place of redefining
cultural and social consciousness will help to separate the
aesthetical and the artistical from the creative and the social and
in that process regaining an autonomous position.

The creative class does not exist (yet)

When there is (again) an autonomous position of the aesthetical and
the artistic the possibility arise to interchange thoughts, means of
cooperation and the like between the creative and the social, before
that the former has to separate itself from the submissive role is
has nowadays.

To be able to play a future role ‘creative class’ consciousness has
to be developed and not taken to be granted.